Etymology

ingenuine

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Today it means: False, not genuine or unauthentic. Full definition →

English genuine ← Latin genuīnus ← Proto-Italic *genos
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Middle Englishin-
  6. Englishin-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  9. Proto-Italic*genos
  10. Latingenus
  11. Latingenuīnus
  12. Englishgenuine
  13. English todayingenuine

From in- + genuine. Piecewise doublet of ungenuine.

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